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Re: ngeD/nap

Teresh000 ([email protected])

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• Subject: Re: ngeD/nap
• Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:41:30 -0400

Adding a bit to Voragh's comprehensive citations:

For me, the English word "easy" makes a comment on the
degree of effort required by some experiencer to accomplish
a goal: "The ship is easy to hit", i.e., not much effort is
needed (in targeting correctly, etc.) to score a hit.

The word "simple", on the other hand, makes a comment on
the organization of some object or concept: "A drum is
simple in design."

To me, in English, the concepts are related but not
identical: "A drum is easy to play because its design is
simple".  I would pair "easy" with its opposite "difficult"
and "simple" with "complex", eg. "Klingon is difficult to
speak because its grammar is complex".  

In Klingon, alas, {ngeD} and {nap} both have the same
opposite, {Qatlh}.

-- ter'eS

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